Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3804
כֶּתֶר
ketherkeh'-ther
crown
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3804is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3804
properly, a circlet, i.e. a diadem
The King James renders it: crown.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kether is rendered "crown". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 1:11to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
Esther 1:11בְּכֶ֣תֶר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a crown of1
- a head-dress of1
- with a crown of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כֶּתֶם | kethem | gold | Uses9 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּכֶ֣תֶר1
- כֶּ֥תֶר1
- כֶּֽתֶר־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Esther
three uses
to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
- בְּכֶ֣תֶרbekheterpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with a crown of
And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
- כֶּֽתֶר־keter-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a crown of
have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.
- כֶּ֥תֶרketernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a head-dress of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.